{"id":61110,"date":"2024-01-12T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/11\/human-rights-decline-globally-leaders-fail-uphold-laws-warns-human-rights-watch-annual-report"},"modified":"2024-01-12T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:30:22","slug":"human-rights-in-decline-globally-as-leaders-fail-to-uphold-laws-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61110","title":{"rendered":"Human rights in decline globally as leaders fail to uphold laws, report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch\u2019s annual report highlights politicians\u2019 double standards  and \u2018transactional diplomacy\u2019 amid escalating crises<\/p>\n<p>Human rights across the world are in a parlous state as leaders shun their obligations to uphold international law, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW).<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2024\">2024 world report<\/a>, HRW warns grimly of escalating human rights crises around the globe, with wartime atrocities increasing, suppression of human rights defenders on the rise, and universal human rights principles and laws being attacked and undermined by governments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/11\/human-rights-decline-globally-leaders-fail-uphold-laws-warns-human-rights-watch-annual-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch\u2019s annual report highlights politicians\u2019 double standards  and \u2018transactional diplomacy\u2019 amid escalating crisesHuman rights across the world are in a parlous state as leaders shun their obligations to uphold international law, accordi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,401,246,41,50,403,496,221,530,59,53,62,1005,86,2729,212,80,494,419,398,61,404,44,84,45,47,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-egypt","category-el-salvador","category-europe","category-european-union","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-israel","category-law","category-lgbtq-rights","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-protest","category-refugees","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sudan","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61111,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61110\/revisions\/61111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}